Participation of V. Starosolsky in the publicistic polemic of 1919–1920 on the Treaty of Warsaw

Abstract

Introduction. The aim of this article is to determine the main features of publicistic polemic about the participation and role of Volodymyr Starosolsky in Ukrainian-Polish understanding of 1919–1920. The Lviv newspapers «Vpered/Forward», «Hromadska Dumka /Public Opinion», «Nova Rada/New Council» and the Vienna magazine «Ukrainskyi Prapor/ Ukrainian Flag» were selected for an object of the study. Methods. Methods of analysis, synthesis, comparative method and press clipping made it possible to define the basic concepts of publicistic polemic. Historical and logical methods were used for stating the facts objectivity. The biographical method allowed to reveal the political activity of Volodymyr Starosolsky. Results and conclusions. From September 1919 till January 1920 Volodymyr Starosolsky published three articles on the problems of state formation in the Lviv diary «Vpered/ Forward». Ukrainian politicians Kost Levytsky, Pavlo Lysyak («Ukrainskyi Prapor/ Ukrainian Flag»), and other authors (Lviv newspapers «Hromadska Dumka/Public Opinion», «Nova Rada/New Council») responded with their articles too. The latter condemned Volodymyr Starosolsky for his participation and role in the Ukrainian-Polish negotiations, which ended with the conclusion of the Treaty of Warsaw in 1920 and with the surrendering of Western Ukraine by Ukrainian People’s Republic in favor of Poland. The Social Democrat Mykola Hankevych and Dmytro Dontsov defended Volodymyr Starosolsky in the magazine «Vpered/Forward». Concepts «sobornist», «independence», «nation», «particularism» were defined as the main in this polemic.